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16Mar/23Off

Peter Gabriel on the future of AI: ‘We might as well just grab the algorithms and dance with them, rather than fight them’

... “If we choose, we can all become the creators of our own self-generated sound and light show, which, using some smart AI, we could learn to design ourselves to serve our needs at any time. Bringing AI into the musical mix will allow us to turn our own brain activity in the self-generated music: less deejay, more ‘me’-jay.” ...

He says he’s “still trying to explore” his 1974 idea of a biofeedback-powered concert, during which he would “get three outputs from each musician — one, their music; two, their body; three, their brain — and those could control the images. So, for instance, there's one song, we may have people's faces like the hall of mirrors at the fairground, and we could have big notes that stretch their faces or fatten them. Or if they're thinking deep thoughts, maybe they fade away and become more ghost-like or spirit-like. … You would measure whether they're leaving sort of a beta state and going into alpha gamma waves, or whatever.” ...

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